books.google.com.ph - The central figure in the modernization of the U.S. Navy. The career of Washington Irving Chambers spans a formative period in the development of the United States Navy: He entered the Naval Academy in the doldrum years of obsolete, often rotting ships, and left after he had helped like-minded officers...http://books.google.com.ph/books/about/From_Torpedoes_to_Aviation.html?id=ZRG9ghlHR1QC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFrom Torpedoes to Aviation